by Pat Hartman | Jan 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Celebrities get involved in good causes, that’s nothing new, but when Brad Pitt gets involved, things happen in a big, big way. The actor was making a movie in Canada when Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding hit New Orleans. Watching the TV news coverage, he...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn by the yard. I don’t think the cat is his pet, probably farrow. I took a picture as I was walking across the street … I continued walking. We mentioned the interview that Wayne Hurlbert conducted with the House the...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
The final month of 2010 was an action-packed one for Richard R. Troxell. Of course, every December, for the past decade or so, has been devoted to the Thermal Underwear Drive. In fact, that project moves to the front burner earlier in the year, in November,...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Historically Venice, California, has been the place where new societal mutations showed up early, and the place uniquely prepared and equipped to deal with them. Whether this is still true remains to be seen. Last month, Peggy Lee Kennedy wrote in the Free Venice...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Around the country, some hearty efforts are being made to make the phrase “Homeless Veterans” obsolete. In Jewett City, Connecticut, the American Legion Veterans Housing, Inc. recently held a groundbreaking ceremony. Legion Post 15 is renovating its old building,...
by Pat Hartman | Jan 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
On Christmas weekend, Bob Woodruff of ABC News presented a report on homeless veterans, and cited the statistic that on any given day, 107,000 vets are homeless (including 9,000 from Iraq and Afghanistan). Women vets are homeless at twice the rate of men,...
